04/04/11 - 710am-305pm   *on new ebird*
Hart-Miller Island, Essex, Baltimore Co., MD

WEATHER: PC/MC, 46-65 degrees, SE 7K- SSE 11K
OBSERVERS: Kevin Graff, Bob Ringler

Canada Goose - 32 (2 on nests)
Wood Duck - 1 (drake)
Gadwall - 68
American Wigeon - 6
American Black Duck - 16
Mallard - 45
Blue-winged Teal - 1
Northern Shoveler - 74
Green-winged Teal - 84
Ring-necked Duck - 58 (2 out in the bay)
Greater Scaup - 1 (drake)
Lesser Scaup - 104
Bufflehead - 97
Common Goldeneye - 1 (hen)
Red-breasted Merganser - 13
Ruddy Duck - 1083
Common Loon - 4
Pied-billed Grebe - 22
Horned Grebe - 1
Double-crested Cormorant - 158
Great Blue Heron - 7
Great Egret - 3
Osprey - 8
Bald Eagle - 2 (nest visible from the road)
Northern Harrier - 2
Peregrine Falcon - 1
American Coot - 380
American Golden-Plover - 1 (early stages of molt to breeding plumage)
Killdeer - 9
Greater Yellowlegs - 1
Lesser Yellowlegs - 10
Least Sandpiper - 12
Pectoral Sandpiper - 1
Dunlin - 13
Bonaparte's Gull - 375
Ring-billed Gull - 25
Herring Gull - 8
Great Black-backed Gull - 2
Caspian Tern - 52
Mourning Dove - 4
Downy Woodpecker - 3
Northern Flicker - 4
Eastern Phoebe - 1
American Crow - 1
Fish Crow - 1
N. Rough-winged Swallow - 1
Tree Swallow - 20
Barn Swallow - 3
Carolina Chickadee - 5
Tufted Titmouse - 4
Carolina Wren - 2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1
Eastern Bluebird - 1 (female)
American Robin - 2
Brown Thrasher - 1
European Starling - 14
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2
Pine Warbler - 1
Palm Warbler - 1 (yellow)
Common Yellowthroat - 1
Eastern Towhee - 2
Chipping Sparrow - 1
Field Sparrow - 1
Song Sparrow - 43
Swamp Sparrow - 5
White-throated Sparrow - 2
"Slate-colored" Junco - 5
Northern Cardinal - 11
Red-winged Blackbird - 89
Eastern Meadowlark - 4
Common Grackle - 8
Brown-headed Cowbird - 12
House Finch - 1
American Goldfinch - 4
SPECIES: 74
INDIVIDUALS: 3042

MAMMALS
River Otter - 1
Red Fox - 1

REPTILES
Red-bellied Turtle - 1

AMPHIBIANS
Spring Peeper - 5

BUTTERFLIES
Cabbage White - 10
Orange Sulphur - 1
Clouded/Orange Sulphur - 1 (female white form)
Comma - 1
angelwing sp. - 3
Gray Hairstreak - 1

BEETLES
Bronzed Tiger Beetle - 50+



    Kevin Graff
    Jarrettsville, MD
    

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